Day 157. There has yet to come a day where I declare myself 100% symptom-free but I’m getting closer and closer! My experience of covid-19 and its after-effects are still affecting my days, both mentally and physically (a chest pain/’tight chest’ and tiredness still remain in my body). A part of me feels like a…
Greetings From Noisy Village
In 1947, two years after she published Pippi Longstocking, the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren wrote The Children of Noisy Village (Alla Vi Barn i Bullerbyn in Swedish / De Kinderen van Bolderburen in Dutch). The book is about a girl called Lisa who lives in a house in between two other houses. The three houses…
Accepting Long Covid
Three years ago, I quit my job and moved with my husband and our two teenagers from Stockholm to a little village by the sea in Spain. My intention was very clear at the time: I wanted to know what would happen in my life if I stopped all doing and started just being. This…
Healing From Long Covid
Today marks the start of week 18 for me, day 126. I’m happy to write that a lot of my symptoms have disappeared. What’s left is chest pain, some gastrointestinal problems and a general tiredness (but not fatigue/exhaustion). I’m able to walk a bit longer every day and even have energy to also do some…
Resilient Surfer
Fighter, warrior. Victim, sufferer. I have noticed that these words are sometimes used to describe people who have covid-19 (or any other health condition really). Somehow, as a person with long-haul covid-19, I don’t identify with any of these words. Even more: I feel a resistance towards them. I really don’t like anyone calling me…